Yeah Yeah Yeahs [EP] - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Metascore
73 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Their sound is dirty and raw, sexy and wrong.
  2. This isn't a record, it's a portfolio: it's noisy but catchy, it lets them try out different styles, and it makes you give a good goddamn.
  3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs cram more ideas and attitude into five songs than most bands express in an entire album.
  4. The EP barely hints at how great the band has become in the past year, especially since the sound quality is roughly at a firing-a-BB-gun-into-a-garbage-can level.
  5. Epitomizes everything bad about the already questionable garage rock revival.
  6. 70
    They're too smart to just be "art punk," so singer Karen O squeals like Kathleen Hanna and Barbara Mandrell because, well, she can.
  7. 80
    YYY cram their furious music full of twists and spasmic enthusiasm, filling every second with motion. [#8. p.127]
  8. Just when the bombast teases with sounding like nails on a chalkboard, the band turns things around to remain more cool than annoying.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. 7
    Nice introduction from Karen O and Co. This indicated what was the come in the future, nice, often frantic, sometimes off the wall, Rock. If you like this band you'll like this EP and if you don't you won't. Full Review »
  2. Sara
    10
    I love it.
  3. EricS.
    0
    Another excruciatingly annoying, over-hyped NYC band. And come on...the no-bass gimmick has already been used. This is pseudo-blues rock for the tone deaf. Full Review »